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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
NOT CONCLUSIVE.

Judge Schoonmaker, of the interstate
commerce commission, returning to his
home, was interviewed yesterday, and
talked to the reporter with apparent can
dor. Summing up the testimony taken
in the south, which has been completed,
Schoonmaker said, its weight was in favor
of continuance of the suspension of sec
tiou four, at least, in SO far as the roads
are concerned. There is no doubt that
the preponderence of evidence furnished
by the commercial interests Of the south,
leans also in the same direction. 1t Is
true the expressions of the farming in
terests of Louisiana, as officially given,
appear to favor section four, but the entire
south is not to be judged by isolated
instances. But all the testimony taken,
has more of an opinionative than an ex-
detrimental character. 1t is not, and will
not, be considered absolutely conclu sive
by the country, and cannot be without an
actual and extended trial of the prac-
tical operation of the famous section.
That trial should be honestly, squarely
and fairly made. This report of the
workings of the new law could then be
made to congress next winter, founded
on cold facts and figures, not a mass of
conflicting opinions.
Especially is an actual trial of section
four, necessary to demonstrate the effects
of the new law on state like Texas, which
happens to be situated at the end OF the
long haul 1t would be well to solve, by
absolute experiment, the problem, whether
it is to the interest of the merch ants of
Austin, for example, to perpetuate pro-
vision of the law which would prevent
line, from carrying carlo ad
of flour fifty per cent. cheaper from
Chicago to Austin, than to Little Rock
and other places on the way. Give the
law fair trial. The evidence SO far is
not conclusive.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
sECoND-TERM soLlLOQuY.

To speak OF write letter, is the question.
Whether It's policy or rot my mind
Must bear the strain and hear the taunts of men
Who ne'er have tackled secOnd-term problem.
This ghoulish glee rifles me to the quick for we'll
| know they are but sings TO trip me up.
I'll take up arms against the politicians
And their Croaks by giving right and left.
To rest, and by rect to say do,
Is a euphemism quite paradOXiCal
And gives all my flesh more avOirlupois
Than thousand nOstrums Dan II suggests
TO rest no more and eTer be aware
The mugwUmps will never ptUp on me,
Even after | have shnilled of the last
And most impOrtunate wayhaCi; democrat.
Gives me ticklish idea I'm not solid,
But this is where calamity is feared
For who could hear what Weed and Vest aad
Others
Lond proclaim without shiver of dismay?
This is where patient merit comes in
And listens TO the praise of other candidates:
Where hold the reins and with this stylus
Can quietus make by drafting letter.
But Ii not do it. Ia rather groan under
The annual salary, and four years more
lave my conscience fed by Dorman's civil
Service tracts, than to be a defunct chief
Buited by the jeers of those who scratched me.
Thus approaching conventions makes EDWARDS
" u5 ALL and the strong, native backbone
We thought we had caves, and the dear people
Coax us TO consent.
But soft, the wary Dan hither treais our way.
Dan, in thy daily talks with ghouish scribes,
Checkmate my random chats with Senators.
New York Tail and Express.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
DANGERS OF IMMIGRATION.

This year Europe is shipping more
than ever before her paupers, criminals,
thieves and anarchists. Our country Is
being flooded with the dregs aud scum OF
rotten old monarchies. The United States
has become the dumping ground for
other nations. Nearly all the dangerous
agitations-the strikes, the boycotts, the
agrarianism, from which we are now suf-
fering, may be traced to the scamps who
have been spewed up by communities OF
the other side of the Atlantic. 1t is about
time to take steps to protect ourselves
and our country from these lepers.
The exigencies of the times call for a
modification of our naturalization laws.
1t might comport with our dignity as
nation, our interests as a people, to ad-
nit no man to a participation in power
in this government, or its benefits, till he
has proven himself worthy. By no law,
human or divine, are we compelled to &C
cept to our bosom the Shiny viper from
foreign shores thai, warmed up, will pro-
coed to sting its benefactor to death
This country belongs to Americans!
There are enough of us now to get along
without any more foreigners. Rather
than have our free institutions imperilled
by foreign Adventures and agitators, it
would be better to shut them out alto
gether, and close our gates against them,
as we have against the Chinese.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

edly had a right, as a member of the club
and a manager of the ball, to object to
the unseemly proceedings, does appear to
have been trife officious. The Spanish
minister was right to the extent of up
braiding Noreiza for dragging the name OF
Miss Bazaine into notoriety. Among the
grandees of old Spain, which the minister
is supposed to represent, the affair might
eliminate in a genuine crossing OF
swords; but in the new world, with more
practical, less chivalric sentiments, it will
probably be otherwise settled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
THE PEOPLES, NOT A
PARTY'S, FIGHT.

The platform adopted by the anti-pro-
hibition convention at Dallas, published
in full this morning, is clear and explicit.
1t takes the prohibition question out of
the range of mere party politics and
places it upon the broad plane of mans
personal rights to liberty and self control.
The first plank in the platform states the
whole case in nutshell, 1t is as follows:
1--WE oppose the prohibition movement
because it Is proposition to change our
form of government from free republic
of sovereign and independent citizens to
species of paternalism, hateful to our
people. 1t will take from them their most
sacred and inalienable rights, and will add
to and augment the powers of govern
ment, and is therefore undemocratic and
anti-republican."
"Undemocratic and anti-republicau.'
This can only mean that it must be a fight
of the people and not of parties,
except wherein the third party, the
prohibitionists,is arrayed against the rest
of the voters of the state. In selecting
the state executive committee, composed
of two representatives from each of the
thirty-one senatorial districts, this idea
of non political was especially empha-
sized-as democrat and republican were
chosen in every instance as the two to
REPRESENT the district. The line is now
marked off and the battle will soon begin
the forces of prohibition drawn mp on the
one side, and on the other all those re-
fusing the terms of the proposed pater-
nalistic government, and standing on
their lnalienable rights, as men to indulge
in peaceful personal liberty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
Our Gas Bills.
New York Herald

From the New York Herald.
The greatest mystery in life, as shown
elsewhere in this mornings herald, is gas.
Gas is a diabolical deceit, the biggest
humbug of the century; pickpocket who
steals all you have, and then, with the
solemn face of a hungry beggar, asks for
a dime.
The man who can pay his gas bills must
be a millionaire, and the man who can
look at the sum total on any one of them
without profanity is a saint tit TO walk
the streets of the new Jerusalem, and al
most too good for this cold EARTH
The paradox of gas is that the cheaper
it is the more it costs. And the odd thing
about your bills is that the less gas you
use the longer the bills are. The prob
lem which this community is called upon
to solve is this: If gas at dollar and a
quarter costs nearly twice as much as gas
at dollar and seventy-five cents, how
much would it cost if the companies
should give it to you for nothing? The
probabilities are, though the exact figures
are not at hand, that the surplus in the
national treasury would last just three
months.
Every housekeeper in New York com
plains of this matter. The gas used by
the people is mighty poor. 1t spends
most of its time in wondering whether it
had better give any light or not, and
generally reaches the conservative con-
clusion that it will not commit itself on
that subject. AS the milkman gets his
greatest supply of tactical fluid from the
pump, so the gas companies draw on the
air, which they drive through their meters
until the meters get the delirium tremens
and couldn't tell the truth if they wanted
to.
This is great world to live in, but if
gas gets to be any cheaper it will cost so
much that we shall all have to move to
some other planet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
Saved HIS Life,

Mr.. D. l. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ky
says he was, for many years, badly affiict-,
ed with phthisic, also diabetes; the pains
were almost uncomfortable and would some
times almost throw him into commissions.
He tried Electric Bitters and got relief
from first bottle, and after taking six bot
ties was entirely cured and had gained in
flesh eighteen pounds. Says he positively
believes he would have died, had in not
been for the relief afforded by Electric
Bitters. Sold at fifty cents bottle by
Morley Bros.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO CARRY THE
SOUTH.

Those good, honest, unsuspecting
heavenly minded people, who believe
prohibition is the innocent, harmless thing
it preteuds to be, can read, this morning,
in the dispatches, the interview of the
Atlanta CORES pondent of the New York
World with a distinguished republican
leader of the south. This interview will
open the eyes of many. 1t is evidently
written by a man thoroughly conversant
with politics, and political leaders. There
is corroborative evidence of the truth ofthe
assertions therein contained. As intimated
in the interview, John Sherman's re-
cent visit to Alabama, and Pig Iron
Kelly's passing the winter in that state
were not for nothing. What more rea'
sonable than that, as the World CORES
pondent alleges, the republicans, with
Blaine in the lead, despairing of success
in 1888 by the northern vote, should
abandon New York and attempt the cap
ture of enough southern states to gain
the day? To do this, the democratic
party Of the solid south must
be split. The World cores
pondent tells how this is to be done
there are two agencies at hand, the tariff
and prohibition. The former is to be
used in such states as Tennessee and Lousi
ana. Prohibition, as stated in the dis
patch, is the entering wedge to break
down democracy in Texas. Does it moi
appear a vast scheme to break the sole
south, and in this way for the republican
party to regain power!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
Josiah DaYis's Trouble.

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
Bucklen's Arn1ca Salve.

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

Life is burdensome, alike to sufferer
and all around him, while dyspepsia and
its attending evils hold sway. Com
plants of this nature can be speedily
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ularly. Thousands once thus afflicted
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merits,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

BAR the Globe Democrat from specu-
lating on democratic disgruntlement in
the near future, and you pluck from it an
eye; you cut it off from the keenest en-
ioyment of its existence. 1t is now build
ing its house of sand on many labor par
ties, and consequent labor disaffection,
all of which will injure only the demo-
cratic party-so it says. Listen to its
shout of joy:
1t is reasonably certain that there will
be two labor candidates for president
in the field next year. The national union
labor party, whose chiefs are now in con-
ference in Indianapolis, will repudiate
Henry George, as they have no sympathy
with the socialist and anarchist elements,
and will put up candidate of their own.
The George men will also make nomina-
ton. THERE'S not the slightest reason to
anticipate that either of these Organiza-
tions will carry the electoral vote of any
state, but there are the best of reasons for
believing that they will settle the business
for the democracy. That party can never
win in any of the close states in any can
vass, in which the labor men poll such a
i vote as they are morally certain of poll
! ing next year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

On, NO! Texas does not need d geo.
logical survey. The great and only
Twentieth legislature has said so, and so
it must be. And yet, this morning, we
publish letter from the general assistant
of the United States geological survey to
the Honorable Mr.. Sayers, the congress
man from this district, asking him about
the forests of this section. And Mr.. Say
ers is obliged to get at the matter in the
round about way of asking county judges
and others to help him out
of his dilemma of ignorance on
the subject. Oh, no! We don't need
a geological survey, but only too readily
avail of all the free advertising the United
States geological survey can give us. And
we are even compelled to give this valu-
able corps of men the most meagre in
formation upon subjects about which they
may inquire. Oh! the great and glorious
Twentieth. What asses they did make of
themselves in this matter. Bell, of Cook,
and others, stand up to be counted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

Mr.. z. A. SCOTT is in charge OF no CITY SUI SUI
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left AZ this Office, will have prompt sttenuon'
srbscribsrs who do not receive their paper resn'
I,rIy. are requested to notify the office. SUD
scribers are warned not to pay their
e1cept upon presentation OF Il properly IeGelpteI
5ill from this office Carrier Boys are hot allowed
TO sell papers.
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Purifies the Blood

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

The Germans and French both appear
to have spy on the brain. All persons
going either way across the frontier are
watched as closely as if they had stolen
something.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

To THE Houston Age Give US some
thing easy don't set us to specializing
and guessing ON the national ticket at
this distance from the contest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

The best yachting time yet made across
the Atlantic, was that of the Henrietta, in
December, 1866. She crossed in thirteen
days and twenty-five hours.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

NoGALEs, just on the line between Ari-
iona and Sonora, appears to be the center
of earthquake disturbances out west
Another shock occurred there Friday
r,irrhA
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

The st. Louis Globe Democrat is out in
an exceedingly labored attempt to be ia
cetious at the expense of Rane all, Cleve-
land and the democratic party. Or rather
its efforts are mainly directed to ridicule
of Cleveland and the democratic party,
and to throw a little sop to Randall, the
great republican democrat of the age.
The prying and suspicious eye OF the
Globe.D Democrat, thinks it has pinioned
Cleveland in an attempt to injure Ran
dali among his constituents and alleges
as his motive that he fears him as a presi-
Dental aspirant. "The wish is father to
the thought" in this instance, beyond a
doubt; for the Globe Democrat is thor
oughly posted on the true strength and
weakness of both Cleveland and Randall,
and in its zeal for republican restoration
TO power, nothing would suit it better, than
to have Randall, the weaker man, put for
ward to make the race. But the Globe
Democrat will in this be sadly disap-
pointed, and had best at once make up its
mind to lay in a six years more stock of
Cleveland abuse.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

Mrs. Mifkins, from Blue Ribbon point
of view, hopes that the three emperors
will never meet again. She is Disguised at
the idea of a tripar" tite' gathering
Moorshine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

A lady who advertised for girl ''to do
light homework" received letter from an
applicant who said her health demanded
sea air and asked to know where the light
house was situated.-N. Y. Herald.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

The Prince of Wales stakes his reputa-
ton as a critic on Mrs. Potter's success.
That is well as far as it goes, but why
doesn't he put up something worth men
tioning ?"-N. Y. Graphic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

An author whose poems were severely
handled by the critics, remarked: "Well,
those are the worst works of which nobody
speaks at ALL"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

THERE is class of people in Texas, as
everywhere else, who, if they ever get to
heaven, will start an agitation against
somebody or something that don't suit
them. In heaven these utopianists will
doubtless want everything their own way.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

IT now appears that the mine accident
in British Columbia Is one of the worst
disasters that ever happened.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12

When Baby was sick we gave her Castoria,
Whom she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria
When che had Children, she gave them Castoria,
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sZ-Population OF Austin In 1885, according to
census taken in that year, $4,000. Present popu-
The STATESMAN is prepared, with Its new Camp
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